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MidLife Women – Slowing down to kyros time
My partner & I just got back from 5 days in the interior of British Columbia at a cabin at the very north end
of Okanagan Lake, a 150 mile stretch of lake. At home our days go too quickly; there never seems to be enough time to complete our tasks & they always take longer than we think they should! But on the lake, time passed very, very slowly. Each day seemed like 2 days, & the 3 full days we spent there felt like a week! It was wonderful & gave us the refreshment away from our routines that we craved.
Time is a man-made concept & that’s why sometimes it seems to lengthen & shorten in a way that’s apart from the actual hours we see on the clock. Kronos, or chronological time, is the time we go by when we use our clocks & schedule our days tightly. Kyros time is the more natural flow of the body, more organic if you will. It is sometimes called sacred time.
Other definitions of Kyros time:
Kairos time is God’s time and is the “appointed time” according to Christian Forums website
Kyros time is for evaluating moments of experience. It is the way our brain remembers things…by putting one event next to the other says Matt Cassidy
Ofer Zur, PhD has written an excellent article called Reflections on Speed in which he mentio0ns kyros time. It begins:
“I was rushing the other morning to get to my laptop to complete this essay. As I was driving my car, I was also talking to my wife on my cell phone, while eating my lunch and listening (was I?) to my favorite classical music radio station. In the midst of all this, my palm pilot beeped, which meant it was protesting being ignored. The irony of rushing to write an article on the impact of speed on daily life did not escape me. Multitasking on my way to describing the importance of “standing still” truly seemed ludicrous.” Read more…
I felt this sense of slowness & timelessness during our recent mini-holiday, & have noticed it occasionally before. For example, sitting in a home where there’s a newborn baby, where things follow the baby’s internal clock much more than they do the one on the wall. Another example would be during a deep meditation when we completely lose track of how much time’s passed.
Have you noticed examples of kyros time? I’d love to hear about more examples of it. The more we can get into this natural flow, the more relaxed we can feel.
Ellen’s short piece is a jewel in a hurried world.
Thanks Ofer for your kind feedback
Warm regards
Ellen
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